{"id":1611,"date":"2011-09-02T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T00:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/ten-years\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T00:10:54","slug":"ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/ten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had he lived, our son would have celebrated his tenth birthday today. September 2, 2001 was a very happy day for us, beginning with a very early morning delivery. It was only the next day that a doctor heard something unusual in his heartbeat and he was airlifted to UCLA. He had a &#8220;successful&#8221; surgery on September 7 but his body never recovered and <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/bolen\/timothy.htm\">Timothy David<\/a> died on October 6.<\/p>\n<p>As I have thought about his life a bit today, I have realized that I have more questions than answers. There are many things I don&#8217;t know, including the answer to another son&#8217;s question: is God celebrating his birthday today in heaven? <\/p>\n<p>We are thankful for the life he had and for the life he has.<\/p>\n<p>(I linked above to our old family site, which recently moved. It&#8217;s interesting to me that my last update there was almost exactly five years ago.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kelli-with-Luke-Mark-and-Timothy-tb090201809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Kelli with Luke, Mark and Timothy, tb090201809\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kelli with Luke, Mark and Timothy, tb090201809\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kelli-with-Luke-Mark-and-Timothy-tb090201809_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Timothy&#8217;s birthday, 2001<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had he lived, our son would have celebrated his tenth birthday today. September 2, 2001 was a very happy day for us, beginning with a very early morning delivery. It was only the next day that a doctor heard something unusual in his heartbeat and he was airlifted to UCLA. He had a &#8220;successful&#8221; surgery\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/ten-years\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}